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Good god.

I hate this phrase and I hate it even more applying it to Cronin, but it’s a shame that someone had to lose that game.

That was just great, great basketball for 45 minutes. Feel like Baylor has caught a break because whoever won this game is going to be a little gutted for the next one.
 
Insane shotmaking (both teams above 1.2 points per possession). Overtime. 2 clutch late shots. The craziest buzzer beater in Final Four history. An undefeated season on the line.

That game is way, way, way up there for best games in tournament history. Top 5 at the minimum. We're talking Kentucky-Duke, UNC-Nova, NC St-Houston, Kansas-Memphis.
 
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Yeah it was. Incredible game by both teams. A lot of great plays. It was back and forth the whole time. Hard to have a better game than that.
 
Played at such a high level. The execution, pick and roll, pin downs, just fantastic watching these talented young men go at one another with such intensity. Both teams put on a wonderful display of how the game should be played and both programs should be proud on how they represented themselves today before millions.
 
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auror said:
Insane shotmaking (both teams above 1.2 points per possession). Overtime. 2 clutch late shots. The craziest buzzer beater in Final Four history. An undefeated season on the line.

That game is way, way, way up there for best games in tournament history. Top 5 at the minimum. We're talking Kentucky-Duke, UNC-Nova, NC St-Houston, Kansas-Memphis.
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Agreed- high level play and coaching on both sides. One of the great games.
 
I was happy to see the gods favor the Zags. They deserve it. But I definteily found myself rooting for Juzang, Jaquez and Bernard..... even though Bernard barely played tonight.

I found myself fascinating by their ability to ignore the strengths of the other team. In every game it seemed like they simply said we got 3 swing players that are legit. You can't stop em all. So we are going to slow what you do a little at just go right at you with what we do well.
 
There are onions, but then there are MAJOR onions......with a kiss!

No but that was the best college basketball game I’ve ever seen. Maybe that’s just recency bias, but I can’t think of a better game. Of course there’s the 6 OT game, but I can’t remember a game where both teams played their absolute best, A+ game from basically start to finish.

UCLAs center was even gettin on the action dropping 20 footers every time he touched the ball.
 
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Classic game that will be talked about for a long time, but you can't have a top 5, there are so many. I mean, I remember Arkansas Duke as a great game, or Nova Georgetown, which still blows my mind until this day. And of course UConn- Duke!
 
upstater said:
Classic game that will be talked about for a long time, but you can't have a top 5, there are so many. I mean, I remember Arkansas Duke as a great game, or Nova Georgetown, which still blows my mind until this day. And of course UConn- Duke!
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This game is a bigger underdog game than Nova/GTown (11 seed from the play-in game, 13.5 point underdog). With a more exciting finish, overtime, and better play overall.
 
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I love this game. But it will lose some of its long term luster if the Zags lose on Monday. The Yankees' "Boone game" lost a lot of its importance after the loss to the Marlins. If the Zags win on Monday this is an all time classic.
 
auror said:
This game is a bigger underdog game than Nova/GTown (11 seed from the play-in game, 13.5 point underdog). With a more exciting finish, overtime, and better play overall.
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I'm not going by the Vegas oddsmakers though. I mean, a team can't actually play better than Villanova did that day I've never seen it. They played out of their minds. But the team they played against was a team full of terrors at the time. They annihilated opponents. I still say its the greatest performance I've seen in over 4 decades. I mean, when you say better play overall, remember that Villanova shot 80% or something like that. I think Georgetown shot really well too.

Tonight's game is definitely up there among the greatest of all time, but I just have difficulty comparing so many good games.
 
upstater said:
I'm not going by the Vegas oddsmakers though. I mean, a team can't actually play better than Villanova did that day I've never seen it. They played out of their minds. But the team they played against was a team full of terrors at the time. They annihilated opponents. I still say its the greatest performance I've seen in over 4 decades. I mean, when you say better play overall, remember that Villanova shot 80% or something like that. I think Georgetown shot really well too.

Tonight's game is definitely up there among the greatest of all time, but I just have difficulty comparing so many good games.
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This was an incredible game tonight played at an extremely high level offensively but it's tough to compare because the players in college were just better back then. The key to slowing down Gonzaga is slowing down Drew Timme, the key to slowing down Georgetown was slowing down Patrick Ewing. It's just a different beast.
 
All time game, the kid timme just makes winning plays. The charge to end regulation was incredible.
juzang is an incredible scorer. What is his draft stock like? I feel like he is the finished version of what we all hope bouk would end up as with the way he scores all over. Maybe not quite as athletic but a better shooter.
 
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